Discovery Primary School
Greenwich, SE28 0JN · Greenwich local authority
Greenwich’s School Grade A− better than 82% of towns in England
What stands out about Discovery Primary School
- Its own letter, A−: Key Stage 2 results better than 75% of England’s primary schools
- 71% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9 points above England’s schools
- Room to spare: 523 pupils for 700 places
- Ofsted report card, February 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- 92% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (59 of 64)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SE28 0) sold for a median £360,000; Greenwich’s is £460,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 71%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 74% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Greenwich avg 71%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 103, maths 104 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 35 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Discovery Primary School?
92% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (6), 2023 (2), 2026 (5). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Greenwich council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Greenwich council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
92% got their first choice
Greenwich and Greenwich, side by side
2023–2025All 62 graded primaries in Greenwich. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Greenwich’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 11% | 88% |
| Our Lady of Grace Catholic Primary School | A+ | 21% | 86% |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 29% | 85% |
| Meridian Primary School | A+ | 15% | 84% |
| Wingfield Primary School | A+ | 19% | 83% |
| Alderwood Primary School | A | 57% | 82% |
| Sherington Primary School | A | 16% | 81% |
| Eltham Church of England Primary School | A | 12% | 81% |
| Notre Dame Catholic Primary School | A | 34% | 81% |
| Deansfield Primary School | A | 11% | 80% |
| Foxfield Primary School | A | 31% | 79% |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School | A | 34% | 78% |
| St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School | A | 26% | 78% |
| Cherry Orchard Primary School | A | 44% | 77% |
| Nightingale Primary School | A | 42% | 77% |
| St Peter's Catholic Primary School | A | 21% | 76% |
| St Thomas A Becket Roman Catholic Primary School | A | 34% | 76% |
| Hawksmoor School | A | 48% | 76% |
| Bannockburn Primary School | A | 16% | 76% |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School, Shooters Hill | A− | 13% | 75% |
| Conway Primary School | A− | 26% | 75% |
| Ealdham Primary School | A− | 43% | 74% |
| Heronsgate Primary School | A− | 29% | 74% |
| Rockliffe Manor Primary School | A− | 46% | 74% |
| Boxgrove Primary School | A− | 44% | 74% |
| Gordon Primary School | A− | 14% | 72% |
| Halstow Primary School | A− | 16% | 72% |
| Fossdene Primary School | A− | 41% | 71% |
| Plumcroft Primary School | A− | 30% | 71% |
| Cardwell Primary School | A− | 45% | 71% |
| Discovery Primary School | A− | 26% | 71% |
| South Rise Primary School | A− | 42% | 71% |
| Thorntree Primary School | B+ | 29% | 70% |
| Horn Park Primary School | B+ | 44% | 70% |
| Kidbrooke Park Primary School | B+ | 47% | 70% |
| Haimo Primary School | B+ | 39% | 69% |
| Henwick Primary School | B+ | 33% | 69% |
| Greenslade Primary School | B+ | 15% | 69% |
| Timbercroft Primary School | B+ | 27% | 69% |
| Brooklands Primary School | B+ | 18% | 69% |
| Bishop John Robinson Church of England Primary School | B+ | 18% | 68% |
| Morden Mount Primary School | B | 36% | 67% |
| De Lucy Primary School | B | 58% | 67% |
| Mulgrave Primary School | B | 34% | 67% |
| Alexander McLeod Primary School | B | 38% | 66% |
| Eglinton Primary School | B | 43% | 66% |
| Millennium Primary School | B | 22% | 66% |
| James Wolfe Primary School and Centre for the Deaf | B | 30% | 65% |
| Christ Church Church of England Primary School | B− | 55% | 64% |
| St Alfege with St Peter's Church of England Primary School | B− | 45% | 64% |
| Montbelle Primary School | B− | 29% | 63% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | B− | 46% | 63% |
| Windrush Thamesmead Primary School | B− | 52% | 63% |
| Woodhill Primary School | B− | 64% | 63% |
| Invicta Primary School | B− | 28% | 61% |
| Wyborne Primary School | C+ | 17% | 60% |
| Middle Park Primary School | C+ | 50% | 60% |
| Greenacres Primary School and Language Impairment Unit | C+ | 44% | 59% |
| Linton Mead Primary School | C+ | 46% | 58% |
| Charlton Manor Primary School | C+ | 25% | 58% |
| St Margaret's Church of England Primary School | C | 46% | 57% |
| Saint Mary Magdalene Church of England All Through School | C | 46% | 57% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025592 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Discovery Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting February 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, November 2021.
Living near Discovery Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SE28 0, the school’s postcode sector
Greenwich property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SE28 0 sell for well under Greenwich’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
31 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗
Greenwich, SE28 0JN
Discovery Primary School: common questions
Is Discovery Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 75% of England’s primary schools (its letter is A−), with 71% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in February 2026.
How hard is it to get into Discovery Primary School?
For September 2026, 64 families put Discovery Primary School first and 59 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.
What is Discovery Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (February 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Discovery Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SE28 0, sold for a median £360,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (398 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Greenwich’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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